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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Murrdox" data-source="post: 1251182" data-attributes="member: 10131">Yup.  If you have 5 images in front of you... if you want to hit the wizard, and don't care whether or not you hit the images, just close your eyes.  Instead of a 80% miss chance (4 out of 5 chance you hit an image), you now have a 50% miss chance, with no chance to hit the images, since once your eyes are closed, you aren't subject to the effects of the illusion.Also, Hyper, when you talk of the Sage's "suggestion", are you talking about the suggestion that all the images of the Mirror Image always reside in the same square as the caster?This is how we play Mirror Image, because the text of the spell (especially the wording in 3.5) implies that is how it is supposed to be done.Also, the spell gives no information on where the images end up if they DON'T end up in the same square as the caster.  Does the DM get to decide how the images arrange themselves?  The caster?  If the caster, what kind of an action is it for him to tell his images where to place themselves?  If the images are spread out, and all the images are hit by a fireball, but the caster is not, suddenly everyone knows who the wizard is, since the images won't react as if being hit by the fireball, since the wizard wasn't.For all these reasons and more, we simply assume that while the images may streak behind the caster as he moves, or lurch in front of him, and swirl around, they always stay within his square while the wizard is taking an action.  Otherwise you just run into too many wacky rule situations.</blockquote>

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